Managed Services Summit Why should you attend?

Now in its 8th year, the Managed Services Summit Manchester continues to complement its sister events in London, Stockholm, and Amsterdam, serving as a premier event for the UK, Nordics, and European IT channels. The Northern UK market offers unique opportunities and challenges, emphasizing cost-efficiency, practical innovation, and long-term partnerships, making it particularly relevant for MSPs and IT providers.

The Managed Services Summit is series of executive-level events, so you know you’ll be among the best in the sector, and those featured will explore the latest trends and developments, evolving customer requirements and how to create value through managed services – both for your own organisation and your customers

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Industry Insights

Presentations will cover the latest trends, evolving customer requirements, and strategies for creating value through managed services.

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Breakouts

Attend a range of sessions led by leading specialists in the field, focusing on technical, sales, and business-related topics.

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Networking

Connect with professionals in the IT channel, including senior decision makers and industry leaders.

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Interactions

Engage in discussions, debates, and collaborations with event sponsors and peers across the industry.

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MSS Benelux

30th June 2026, Amsterdam

MSS London

9th September 2026, London

MSS Nordics

5th November 2026, Stockholm

Meet our 2026 Event Speakers

Mark McInerney

LogMeIn

Mark McInerney is a sales leader at GoTo, specialising in the Managed Service Provider (MSP) and IT management market. With extensive experience helping MSPs navigate the evolving technology landscape, Mark focuses on solutions that enable providers to simplify their technology stack, improve operational efficiency and scale their businesses. His expertise spans remote support, RMM, endpoint management, cybersecurity and automation, with a particular focus on how emerging technologies such as AI are shaping the future of the MSP industry.

John Hartson

John Hartson (born 5 April 1975) is a former Welsh international footballer who played as a striker, best known for his spells with Arsenal, West Ham and Celtic. Hartson also featured prominently for Wales, earning 51 caps until his international retirement in 2006. He retired from professional football after being released by West Bromwich Albion in January 2008. John was celebrated many times during his career , he appeared for Celtic in 146 games and scored 88 goals. He was voted Welsh footballer of the year 3 times – 1998, 2001 and 2003 and PFA Players’ player of the Year 2005. In July 2009 it was reported that Hartson would undergo chemotherapy after being diagnosed with "testicular cancer which has spread to his brain”. It was later reported the cancer had spread to his lungs and that he remained in a "critical condition" following emergency surgery. Professor Colin Cooper, Head of the Everyman Campaign, still believed Hartson's prospects were good at 60:40 though they would have been 99:1 with an earlier diagnosis. On 11 April 2010 Hartson appeared as a guest in ESPN's "Talk of the Terrace", where he revealed that he had had over two hundred carcinogenic cells in his body but through treatment all of them had been eliminated and not a trace of cancer was left in his body. John is now an estabilished football pundit for both the BBC, on Match of the Day and Football Focus, he also commentates and give his valued opinion for BT Sport. In 2010 John set up his own foundation to suppport individuals who have suffered in the same way he has and to create awareness campaigns to get young men to check themselves for the signs of testicular cancer. John has been involved in many fundraising projects including climbing Kilimanjaro, raising thousands of pounds for his foundation.

As John says “People say I’m a fighter but I was only doing what came
naturally. I’ve got so much to live for.”


Lauren Brown

Huntress

Lauren Brown

Huntress

Lauren has six years of experience in the industry, spanning across numerous areas of the cybersecurity landscape. She's worked for vendors specialising in email security, SIEM and DLP and is thrilled to have recently joined the Huntress EMEA team. Over the span of her career, Lauren has partnered closely with a number of MSPs and channel partners as a trusted advisor, helping organisations understand modern threats and build practical, effective security strategies.

Kieron Moore

Acronis

Kieron Moore

Acronis

Kieron Moore leads strategic partner acquisition for Acronis across the UK and Ireland. He began his career in business continuity and disaster recovery, supporting organisations in the finance, government and charity sectors. Since joining Acronis six years ago, he has specialised in complex, distributed enterprise and retail environments. Kieron helps partners and customers strengthen their cloud transformation strategies through integrated data protection, cybersecurity and automation, with a focus on building resilience and improving operational efficiency.

Callum Gillespie

Nueworx

Callum spent years inside an MSP serving large enterprise IT teams, and more recently working on the challenges across service desk, endpoint and identity Nueworx now automates. He went looking for a platform that combined proactive management with AI that could safely act for real users. When he couldn't find one, he co-founded Nueworx to build it. He now leads the company's strategy, vision and commercial direction.

Will Garside

IT Europa

Will Garside

IT Europa

Will specialises in writing and presenting – producing a huge range of content, ranging from thought-leadership articles to white papers. He started his career as a computer engineer before becoming one of the first producers on Sky TV’s primetime technology show “The Computer Channel” – alongside also covering mainstream business and technology news. He then worked as a product reviewer and technical writer for IT Network before going to Computer Weekly to cover security, telecoms and networking. He worked for several large technology brands including Microsoft and EMC as a technical writer and media consultant and was also the editor at International Broadcast Engineer – a role that saw him deliver a huge number of detailed analysis pieces on emerging video experiences. He has also written a number of books including tech guides for Which? and several "Dummies" guides on topics including big data and storage.

Will is also a highly experienced event moderator, managing content and panels at both the IBC and NAB shows for the last 10 years.

Matt Aldridge

Opentext

Matt Aldridge

Opentext

Matt is a cybersecurity veteran with over 30 years of experience.

Past roles have included building military security software, technical leadership for managed network services at Computacenter (Europe’s largest Systems Integrator) and providing networking & security consultancy to customers and partners in a variety of industries.

In 2014 Matt moved to Webroot BrightCloud (now OpenText Cybersecurity), to work with new customers and partners across EMEA and worldwide. He architects the integration of OpenText Threat Intelligence services & malware detection solutions, with vendor partner engagements across the entire cybersecurity portfolio.

Matt is a cybersecurity evangelist, representing OpenText globally at industry events and in the media, delivering keynote speeches and bespoke presentations on industry topics.


Ed Baker

Netwrix

Ed Baker

Netwrix

At Netwrix Corporation Ed Baker leverages 30+ years of expertise in leadership, strategic sales, channel partnerships and ecosystem strategies to drive market growth. Known for championing an innovative approach, Ed is a self-confessed 'AI Addict' having been a founder and advisor for several AI startups.

Meet our 2026 Event Sponsors

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